Ruby Development Tools Documentation - 0.6.0

Chapter 3. Concepts

Table of Contents

Ruby projects
Ruby perspectives
Ruby
Debug
Ruby Resources View
Ruby Editor
Code completion
Code formatting
Console View
Outline View
RI View
Syntax Errors and the Problems View
Task List
Running a Ruby application
Starting from Ruby Resource View
Starting from main menu
Run configuration
Running a Test::Unit Test
Starting from Ruby Resource View
Starting from main menu
Test::Unit Test Run Configuration
Debugger
Prerequisites
Start a debug session
Debug views
Automatic code reload
Inspection shortcuts
Debugging into ruby libraries
Known limitations

Ruby projects

A Ruby project contains source code and related files for building a Ruby program.

A Ruby project also maintains a model of its contents. This model includes information about the type hierarchy, references and declarations of Ruby elements. This information is constantly updated as the user changes the Ruby source code.

You can organize Ruby projects in one way currently:

  • Using the project as the source container. This is the recommended organization for simple projects.